A World War II bomb found in MRT project site
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A vantage aerial bomb was discovered Monday at a site near Bang Sue train station marked for the construction of a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) train station, before it was secured by the Air Force.
Air Force bomb disposal personnel said the 200-plus kilogram bomb, likely dropped during World War II, was possibly the same sort that exploded in April at a scrap-metal shop in Lat Pla Khao area in Bangkok after workers tried to blowtorch it open.
The 12 by 46-inch bomb had been ruptured by a backhoe while it was digging up an area near the MRT project site.
The Nation
